Wanders - Mountweazel

From Scotland

The quote that led you here is from “The Historie of Scotland Wrytten First in Latin by the Most Reuerend and Worthy Jhone Leslie Bishop of Rosse and Translated in Scottish by Father James Dalrymple Religious in the Scottis Cloister of Regensburg the Yeare of Our God 1596 Edited by the Rev Father E G Cody and W Murison“, who

“wandiret throuch Hispane, France, Italie, Greice, and Asia, to leir ȝit mair“

Scots have a long tradition of heading abroad – for learning, for profit, for adventure. I have done all three – the story of my wandering starts here.

In late 2019 we took our last trip before the COVID calamity, to Jordan.

Inis Arcáin

51°28′N 9°25′W

Alguerese

40°34′N 08°19′E

Mar

A gentle walk downhill from Fairmilehead to Morningside, with Auld Stanes and grand views out across the Forth. Type About 4km, not circular, downhill unless you want to deviate. Getting

Mar

Paris Although I first visited Paris on the Magic Bus in 1978, we passed through, stopping only for a breakfast of croissant and café, gazing astonished at La Tour Eiffel.

Mar

First moves We hitchhiked from Scotland to Hull and took the ferry to Ostend, where we stayed in The Red Dragon, a pub with a squat above it, run by

From Scotland

Stanes

Paris

First post the past